PoC focal Alternate History recommendations

[8mph_ansible]

'eyos and 'ellos towards one and all,

Been talkin alternate history to some folx online over the weekend. And in the my mind I've reviewed all the alternate history works I've read, came across and heard about. Now this, if you understand, can be rather funny given that much of the genre's material feels like a short playlist on repeat.

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[alias_sqbr]

Yes, I've been self teaching myself a bit of history and stuff recently, and thinking about how we westerners can on the one hand romanticise our past and gloss over the horrible aspects/attitudes etc while simultaneously looking down on societies for being alien and "backward" when their values/society etc are much closer to our own than our ancestors were. I'm pretty sure that if you'd asked the ancient romans what an empire out of england would look like, they wouldn't have had high hopes for us becoming "civilised". (I'm not sure I got my point across there. But yes, I agree with you :))

As an aside, a tv show which I've always felt had huge wasted potential in this regard is Stargate SG1. Countless planets all starting from a base of various human societies taken from the past (and thus in a sense alternate versions of history playing out), and yet somehow the egyptian/other POC based ones all stay in villages and it's only the generic white ones which develop advanced technology...(and even they show no signs of having any sort of interesting cultural variations that bear any resemblance to real world anthropology)

[8mph_ansible]

Yep, and don't get me started on europeans eating mummified human flesh brought from Africa, mainly Egypt. Yeah...

And you have pretty much spelled out bit by bit my entire love-hate relationship with the Stargate franchise. =/

[alias_sqbr]

o.O

*googles "eating mummified flesh"*

Good god. Every time I think I have a grip on the horribleness of european history...